Jeopardy! Masters game #15 - Monday, May 22, 2023

2023 Jeopardy! Masters semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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Matt Amodio, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California

James Holzhauer, a self-described game show villain from Las Vegas, Nevada

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Jeopardy! Round

AMERICANS IN PROTEST
ALL AROUND THE WORLD
SIGNS & SYMBOLS
PERILS OF JOURNALISM
CLASSIC GAME SHOW PHRASES
(Ken: You'll have to name the game show.)
TRIPLE RHYME TIME
    200 29
It's the L-A in LULAC, a civil rights organization founded at Salon Obreros y Obreras in Corpus Christi in 1929
    200 18
A national park in Australia gets its name from basalt columns called these, components of a musical instrument
    200 26
Originally the staff carried by Hermes, this rod entwined by 2 snakes is a symbol of physicians & the emblem of the U.S. Army Medical Corps
    200 28
Boss has me writing "advance" these for what we call the morgue; CNN exposed some in 2003 for Dick Cheney & John Paul II--oops!
    200 22
"Come on down"
    200 30
A hirsute, eerie pixie
    400 19
A 2014 shooting in this St. Louis suburb marked a new era of protest against police treatment of African Americans
    400 17
Be wary around Mont St. Michel of this substance, sables mouvants in French, which is perhaps not as deadly as films portray
    400 25
Perhaps a reference to the Medici family, 3 gold balls have become the symbol of this type of shop
    400 27
The "authoritative journalism guidebook", this org.'s stylebook caught flak in 2023 for a tweet about "the French"
    400 21
"Survey says..."
    400 24
To pretend your thoughts hurt
    600 7
Best known as the maker of Saran Wrap, this Michigan-based chemical company became the subject of protests for making napalm
    600 16
A ship found off Madagascar may be the vessel of this British pirate whose riches Poe wrote of in "The Gold Bug"
    600 10
The symbolism in this artist's Arnolfini Portrait includes a dog, a symbol of fidelity
    600 23
Once again, I did this, failed to put the newsworthy part first; my editor says she'll put me underground if I do it again
    600 20
"Dumb Dora was so dumb..."
    600 14
A more attractive semi-aquatic weasel relative whose job is to make sure your bench press doesn't crush you
    800 6
As Army Chief of Staff, in 1932 this general turned away veterans marching on D.C. for World War I bonuses
    DD: 1,000 2
A gigantic 3/4 dome, Montreal's biosphere was designed by this American for the city's 1967 Expo
    800 9
In 1675 Leibniz introduced an elongated S to represent the sign for this calculus process
    800 15
There aren't federal types of these, but most states have ones that won't force me to reveal chili recipe competitors' secrets
    800 4
To the mystery guest: "Enter & sign in, please"
    800 13
The shell of an oared racing boat that has lost its luster
    1000 5
After silver was demonetized, the return of this coinage -ism became a populist cause of the late 1800s, even with protest songs
    1000 1
The Majolikahaus is one of one of many Vienna buildings decorated in this style whose name is partly from German for "youth"
    1000 8
This circular symbol of destruction & rebirth features a serpent devouring its own tail
    1000 11
Welp, my story got shelved by this alliterative group of senior editors, also where lesser members of U.K. Parliament sit
    1000 3
"Big bucks, no whammies"
    1000 12
To praise the unexpected viewing of "Never Gonna Give You Up" you saw in the pit you dug with the other soldiers

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

James Andrew Matt
2,800 5,600 5,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
(Ken: You'll need to name the king of the region where the mountain is that we give you.)
& SCENE
TOUGH SCIENCE
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE
FIVE FOR FIGHTING
PURE POETRY
(Ada Limón: I'm Ada Limón, Poet Laureate of the United States, with clues to show you the beauty, power, and necessity of poetry.)
    400 28
Ben Nevis, since late 2022
    400 10
Anesthesia by mallet is one technique this trio uses when they play doctors in "Men in Black", their only Oscar-nominated film
    400 29
The size of a beach ball at roughly 23 inches in diameter, it orbited the Earth in around 98 minutes on Oct. 4, 1957
    400 23
In Spanish, one of these is "caballito de mar"; in Portuguese, "cavalo marinho"
    400 26
Throwing one of these gloves in medieval times was a great insult, & "taking one up" was a signal that the fight was on
    400 30
(Ada Limón reads.) NASA has commissioned me to write a poem to be engraved on its Europa Clipper probe, which will travel 1.8 billion miles on its way to inspect an icy but possibly life-friendly moon of this planet
    800 27
Ben Nevis, 1602--as he was known at the time, please!
    800 9
Albert Brooks takes flop sweat to a new level when he gets his break as an anchorman in this comedy
    800 4
Snowflakes & coastlines are often cited as examples of these repeating geometric shapes, from Latin for "broken"
    800 22
When talking to one person in Spanish, you use the pronoun tú with a pal but this other pronoun for a more formal encounter
    800 25
Siamese fighting fish are also known by this name, which sounds like you might want to put a wager on them
    800 24
(Ada Limón reads.) I'm a big fan of this strong metrical foot that consists of two stressed syllables, like the title of my poem "Dead Stars"
    DD: 2,800 1
Mont Ventoux in Provence, during the Seven Years' War
    DD: 9,600 7
A memorable quote from "In the Heat of the Night" became this title of another Sidney Poitier film in 1970
    1200 3
An Italian anatomist gave his name to this "apparatus" inside a cell that modifies & transports proteins & lipids
    1200 20
Literally "new tendency" in Portuguese; don't blame it on us if you can't feel the groove
    1200 15
An 1880 love affair between Johnse & Roseanna of these 2 families was pumped up by U.S. papers as a tragic union of star-crossed lovers
    1200 13
(Ada Limón reads.) From French for "step over", this technique in which a thought runs on from one line to the next imports a free-flowing feel, as in Eliot's "April is the cruellest month, breeding
/ Lilacs out of the dead land"
    1600 18
12,200-foot Pico del Teide on Tenerife, 1975 to 2014
    1600 6
In this 1937 tearjerker, Barbara Stanwyck in the title role watches through a window as her daughter gets married
    1600 2
Used in astronomy, it's the percentage of light reflected by an object; the Moon's is about .1, cloudy Venus', about .7
    1600 19
The first name of the jazz great seen here
    1600 14
This term for a brawl or donnybrook is also the title surname of an Irish-American cop played by John Wayne on film
    1600 11
(Ada Limón reads.) Often confused with metonymy, this figure of speech creates vivid imagery by using a part of something to represent the whole, as when Milton referred to the corrupt & greedy clergy of his day as "Blind mouths!"
    2000 17
Mount Toubkal in the High Atlas, since 1999
    2000 8
A stunning sequence in this 2019 film depicts the same-named massacre of Manchester protesters in 1819
    2000 5
Before oxygen was discovered, it was thought that all combustible matter contained a burnable substance called this
    2000 21
The Japanese word for "thank you" is coincidentally similar to this Portuguese word of thanks
    2000 16
His 1919 book "Fighting the Flying Circus" detailed his exploits in the 94th Aero Pursuit Squadron
    2000 12
(Ada Limón reads.) Poets who have read at presidential inaugurations include Robert Frost in 1961 & Maya Angelou, who in 1993 recited this poem that implored, "Lift up your eyes upon / This day breaking for you"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

James Andrew Matt
26,000 15,200 8,200

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Final Jeopardy! Round

LITERATURE
In reviewing this novel, Carl Jung said it took place in one single & senseless day "on which, in all truth, nothing happens"

Final scores:

James Andrew Matt
30,401 22,000 15,201
Winner: 3 match points 2nd place: 1 match point 3rd place: 0 match points

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

James Andrew Matt
16,000 15,000 8,200
23 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 10 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: 39,200

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Game tape date: 2023-05-15
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